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• Institutes of the Competence Field

• committee work

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• Cooperation among institutes at Fraunhofer

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• Materials Expand / Hide

  • Ceramic materials

  • Polymeric materials

  • Metallic materials

  • New materials for selective laser sintering

  • Design of functional materials

  • Bioprinting - Additive production of artificial tissue

  • Space applications - platinum-rhodium combustion chamber

  • Heat treatment strategies for laser beam melting

  • µForm - Additive manufacturing of form electrodes

  • Process development for additive multi-material fabrication

  • Printable Biomaterials

  • TiAlCharger - Process development for additive manufacturing

  • Comparison of 3D printing and metal injection molding

  • Processing of tool steels by Metal Binder Jetting

  • PBF-LB/M Powder kit

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  • Laser-based processes

  • Peripherals, process chains and subsequent processes

  • ForNextGen - Additive multi-material tool making

  • CerAMics - Functional combination of ceramics and metals

  • Metallic components in small batch production

  • ProFex - Process chain for the production of highly complex turbine parts

  • Generative laser wire cladding

  • GIHSL - Fabrication of lattice structures by laser beam melting

  • MultiBeam - Multimaterial processing via additive manufacturing

  • Metal Binder Jetting for serial production

  • Life-Cycle Assessment of LPBF

  • Sensor based process control in laser powder bed fusion

• Engineering Expand / Hide

  • Product design

  • Product development

  • Weight optimization of a reamer through additive manufacturing

  • Additively manufactured aircraft component optimized for lightweight construction

  • Optimal layout of an artificial vascular system with additive manufacturing

  • Mesoscopic lightweight construction with hexagonal honeycombs

  • Approaches for the development of small satellites

  • Optimal layout for functionally graded materials

  • SimuGen - Additive manufacturing of lightweight structures

  • Additively manufactured miniature heat exchanger

  • MUGETO® - Functionally integrated implant

  • HiperFormTool - High performance tools for sheet metal forming

  • GenFly - Additive manufacturing of lightweight components

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  • Products and processes

  • SafetyAM - Work safety in additive manufacturing

  • Strain rate dependent material behavior for dynamic loads

  • Quality control of powder

  • Build-up strategies for additive manufacturing

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  • Software

  • Component simulation

  • Process simulation

  • Optimization of shape distortions during additive manufacturing

  • Numerical simulation of powder spreading

  • SimGen - Residual stresses and warpage in stereolithography

  • SIMCHAIN - Local properties of additive manufactured parts

  • Bionic Manufacturing

  • Cuttlefish - Voxel-based, streaming-enabled 3D printer driver

  • Graded segmentation of components in PBF-LB/M

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